On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 02:32:03PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 11:43 AM, bruce wrote:
> >
> > I wanted to get the last X lines of each file from an input/wildcard
> > list of files !!
> >
>
> There were already at least two different solutions posted.
>
> tail -n 5 $(find /foo -na
From: bruce
Subject: Re: tail for a list of files
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
find . -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and
126.pdf
What does it pr
On 03/04/2018 01:07 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
From: Joe Zeff
On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
find . -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and
126.pdf
What does it print if you don't run it through tail?
That exercise was left
On 03/04/2018 11:43 AM, bruce wrote:
um.. hey guys
I wanted to get the last X lines of each file from an input/wildcard
list of files !!
so.. I wanted the last 5 lines of the 126.pdf as well as the last 5
lines of the 125.pdf...
--NOT the last X files from a list of files..
There were alr
On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
I created 4 pdf files using 'touch 123.pdf' through '126.pdf'
find . -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and
126.pdf
The find command lists the files in whatever order the filesystem
returns
On 03/04/2018 01:07 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
That exercise was left for those adventurous students with an inquiring
mind to attempt and to ascertain the answer for themselves
But for those without a computer to run the code or the intellectual
musculature to open a console and type a li
From: Joe Zeff
On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
find . -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and
126.pdf
What does it print if you don't run it through tail?
That exercise was left for those adventurous students with an inquir
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>
>>
>> find . -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
>>
>> does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and
>> 126.pdf
>
>
> What does it print if you don't run it through tail?
>
um.. hey guy
On 03/04/2018 11:15 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
find . -name "*.pdf" | tail -n 2
does not 'find' the files in canonical order: it outputs 124.pdf and
126.pdf
What does it print if you don't run it through tail?
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On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 11:15 -0500, bruce wrote:
> Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd (it should be
> possible right??) to do a tail -5 for a list of files???
>
> I thought I could combine find with exec/xargs and tail to generate
> the list of files/tail data.. But couldn't figure ou
find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -ls -exec tail -f {} \;
-print will list only the filename
-ls will list the long dir entry.
{} is needed to deliver the filename you are working with.
\; is needed to signal the end of the command.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
> Correction - I
Correction - I shouldn't have copy and pasted. drop the {} \; from the
script
find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -print0 | xargs -0 tail -n5
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Clifford Snow
wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:40 AM, bruce wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks.. works .. but I forgot one thing...
>>
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:40 AM, bruce wrote:
>
> Thanks.. works .. but I forgot one thing...
>
> Is there a way to list the "file" prior to the tail or would that
> require a bash/shell script.. I could have sworn that I've seen how to
> accomplish this a while ago... arggh!
>
> For that I think
On 03/03/2018 08:15 AM, bruce wrote:
Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd (it should be
possible right??) to do a tail -5 for a list of files???
I thought I could combine find with exec/xargs and tail to generate
the list of files/tail data.. But couldn't figure out the syntax..
tho
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Clifford Snow wrote:
> find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -exec tail -5 {} \;
>
> should work. You could also add various find options like -type f to make
> sure its a regular file and -mtime n to get recently modified files.
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:15 AM, bruce wro
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Joachim Backes
wrote:
> On 03/03/18 17:15, bruce wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> Hey..
>>
>> Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd (it should be
>> possible right??) to do a tail -5 for a list of files???
>>
>> I thought I could combine find with exec/xargs and
On 03/03/18 17:15, bruce wrote:
Hi Bruce,
Hey..
Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd (it should be
possible right??) to do a tail -5 for a list of files???
I thought I could combine find with exec/xargs and tail to generate
the list of files/tail data.. But couldn't figure out the s
ah...
exec instead of xargs... ok...
is there a way with exec ???
thanks
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Clifford Snow wrote:
> find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -exec tail -5 {} \;
>
> should work. You could also add various find options like -type f to make
> sure its a regular file and -mtime n
find /foo -name "*dog.dat" -exec tail -5 {} \;
should work. You could also add various find options like -type f to make
sure its a regular file and -mtime n to get recently modified files.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:15 AM, bruce wrote:
> Hey..
>
> Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd
Hey..
Trying to figure out how to do a single line cmd (it should be
possible right??) to do a tail -5 for a list of files???
I thought I could combine find with exec/xargs and tail to generate
the list of files/tail data.. But couldn't figure out the syntax..
thoughts??
find /foo -name "*dog.d
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